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Round 1 Division 7 Day 13
Dark Souls 82.99%
Hotline Miami 17.01%

Prediction Percentage 93.08%

Dark Souls was one of the most anticipated games to watch in the contest. Last contest, it was already good enough to make round 3 by upsetting Metal Gear Solid V. This contested, it was expected to do better. You cant talk about Game of the Decade without Dark Souls being brought up. The Soulsborne games have been a huge part of this decade and theyve been growing in popularity in the latter half the decade as well. Dark Souls has been very influential and has gained a lot of respect, a lot of which comes from the fact that its a hard game that came out in a time where the surge in mobile games made console games easier to complete or at least gave you the possibility of getting through on easy mode. You needed players to not give up and spent hours doing nothing on their new smartphone. Dark Souls however appealed to gamers building a reputation of the game being hard and it was successful enough for casuals to buy into it to. Its a bit stupid, but it worked. Im sure lots of kids today would name a Soulsborne game as the hardest thing ever and its not that bad, not even for its time, but word of mouth did this game huge favors.

Of course, Dark Souls wouldve have become that big if being hard was the only thing it had going for it. Its a great game. Some people were taking it to beat Skyrim and a few took it to the finals. Others however looked at its 2015 stat and figured it already had its peak strength then, which would put it below The Last of Us, causing The Last of Us winning the division to be a very popular upset pick. Dark Souls proved itself today, however, adding yet another blowout to the long list this year. It was in this and we could not count it out of a long run yet.

Hotline Miami is from the early part of the decade, but it has had releases in the latter half too. It was released on Switch a year ago and it was released on Xbox One on the day of this match. I bet you didnt know, but its true, though only if youre American, otherwise it would be past midnight and be the following day, but at the start of the match it was on release day. It probably didnt help the game in the slightest and thats confirmation that you arent really worth much, so as much as this looks good for Dark Souls, it was still not really possible to tell what it meant.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.